Archive for March, 2008
The other night, Amy and I were on our way to Pasadena to meet Buddy and Graham for dinner. Friday used to mean TGIP, which stands for Thank God Its Pepe’s. Pepe’s was out in La Canada Flintridge, and was the traditional Friday night spot for margaritas and carnitas.
I’ve been to TGIP a [...]
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I brought way too many clothes with me to Los Angeles. I used to be better at packing, but I haven’t been down here since last year, so I’m out of practice. It is scandalous that my last visit was for Amy’s 40th — that was January, 2007.
Gabe carried the suitcase for me, [...]
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One of my earliest memories is of my very first favorite song. I was five years old, and attending kindergarden in Mukilteo, at Rose Hill Elementary.
It was an amazing, incredible school, in an old brick building not far from the ferry terminal. We had a sandbox in our classroom and, unlike [...]
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I don’t have much good to say about this week. All sorts of things are falling apart around me. At every turn, there seems to be someone waiting to harsh my mellow. Is it the moon? Did that owl I saw last month drop some sort of bad ju ju bomb [...]
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I never realized that a big family was the exception, not the rule, until I started going to school. I was shocked by friends that told me they had two cousins, or only one aunt. I knew that eight kids was a lot for one set of parents to have, but it didn’t [...]
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